Miner's Memorial - Kirkland Lake, Ontario
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N 48° 08.852 W 080° 02.938
17U E 570740 N 5333135
A memorial to the more than 300 miners who have been killed in the Kirkland Lake area since 1914.
Waymark Code: WMHQXV
Location: Ontario, Canada
Date Posted: 08/06/2013
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The Miners Memorial, situated at the entrance to the Museum of Northern History, is a stunningly beautiful monument that pays tribute to the miners and the industry that built Kirkland Lake.
The monument is a 40 tonne, 32-foot high black granite abstraction of a head frame surrounded by the life size figures of five miners at work underground. Created by artists Sally Lawrence and Rob Moir, it is designed to honour the workers who toiled underground, and mourn those who gave their lives in the mines of Kirkland Lake.
Every physical component of the Monument is local. Even the rock was taken from the nearby French River. All of the machinery and equipment was donated by miners or the mines. The mucker, the ladder and even the batteries on the miner's belts are authentic. The bolts that are used to hold the Monument together are stone bolts taken from a mine.
The Figures
Five miners are working the mine, each doing his job drilling, mucking, stoping or climbing a ladder.
Sector of the workforce: mining
Created or Donated by which group: Artists: Sally Lawrence and Rob Moir; Sponsoring group: United Steel Workers, district 6 Union
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